Soda-water apparatus



M. F. HYDE.

SODA WATER APPARATUS.

N o.-12,485. Patented Mar. 6, 1855.

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. SODA-WATER APPARATUS.

Specification =01: Letters Patent Nb. 12,485, dated March 6, 1855.

Be itknown thatjLIMARoUsF. HYDE, of

Burlington, Iiiiflthe .county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented a 1 new and Improved Apparatus for Making Soda andother Mineral l/Vaters'; and I do i hereby declare that ,thefollowing is a full j and exact descriptionnh The nature "of. my" lnvention consists in employing" three strong vessels of cast iron or othersubsistance enameled on the inside a A, B, C, connected as described by an iron pipe also enameled on the inside, two. of

1 to sustain a pressure of from seventy-five which vessels B being cast in one 15 e e e hereinafter described, and the other C as piece, are used as generator and purifier as condenser, and the water charged with gas by 1ts ownwpressure 1n CODIIGClZlOIl', with a porous disk attached to the end of, the .pipeE. e q l f f To enable others skilled in the art to make y and use mylinvention, I will proceed tode-.

. scribe itsuconstruction and operation.

Three cylinders A, B, and C, are made of iron or other substance of sufficient strength i to one hundred pounds pressure to the inch;

of which the two smaller, the generator and purifierA and B are about ten inches in i formed oftwoi halves with flanges united in the middle. .The twocylinders, generator,

[height and five in diameter, andt-he other the condenser C, proportioned in size to the quantity of water to be carbonated. The head D of the larger is fitted on gas tight (for the'smallest leak will destroy the pervfection of the corbonization) in any of the usual methods; or the cylinder may be and purifier are castinjonepiece and their connecting pipe cast in the non between them as represented in drawing. Through the head-Dofjthecondenserv passes a pipe E from the purifierB to within one or two inches of the bottom also screwed in gastight; on the endfofwhich pipe 1s fastened a disk Ffof fine iron wire gauze or other equivalent fporous substance. The generator has ahead G such as represen'ted in itsdrawing,having in it a safety [valve H, so constructed that to the screw rod passing through it a perforated lead basket K'is attached for holdingthe alkall, and also to allow the head to be taken off when thewater is charged, without further consumption of material; there is also a lead ar L placed 1n the generator for holding the dilute-acid. The purifier B is filled to nearly the pipe E with alkaline water, or water merely. P is a screw valve in the purifier for filling it.

N is a screw valve in the condenser for filling, and also to remove atmospheric air from it after the charglng has commenced;

D, pipe to ascertain the height of water in condenserbefore charging with gas; L,

cock to remove contents from condenser and to clean it.

The operation of the, fountain is as follows; the condenser C having been filled with water to cock 0, and the purifier to nearly pipe E, the alkali-bicarbonate of soda well wrapped up in paper, so that a few seconds may elapse before the acid acts upon the alkali, is placed in the lead basket K attached to the rod passing through the head of the generator; the head is then put on and screwed down tight. The gas generated then passes down the pipe M cast between the generator and purifier, through the semillquld or liquid in the purifier, and through the connecting pipeE to the bottom of the condenser C, and coming 1n contact with the.

finely perforated disk F, is minutely subdivided, and in that condition passes up the water until it is thoroughly carbonated. When this takes. place the cock R is turned, and the connection between the generator and condenser is cut ofi' and the head-of the generator, to save further expense of alkali is taken from its place. Then by turning the cock S the water may be drawn. Any amount of pressure may be obtained in this way without the use of a forcing pump, as ordinarily used for charging water with carbonic acid gas, for the chemical action will go on under whatever pressure till the materials are spent.

What I claim as my invention, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent is y The porous distributer or its equivalent arranged and operating as described.

H. B. PAINE, I, POWELL. 

